On 24-9-2012 18:43, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > >> On 24-9-2012 17:22, >> michael.vancanneyt-0is9kj9sb0a-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> Finally, I'll post on the forum that sdf compatibility is not one of the >> goals of sdfdataset. >> >> Is there some defined on-disk format that sdfdataset should be following? > > As I understood it, it is either fixed length or CSV. CSV as in > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 People can only go by what they see (they can't read your mind when you committed sdfdataset). There is: - the unit name ("sdfdataset") - the comments - the code - the output All of this makes it in my opinion more likely to be SDF than CSV. CSV is not SDF. See the test results from the Delphi test I posted to the list earlier. For a description of what SDF is (based on Delphi help as well as the tests), see http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/SDF If you understand it is CSV, why not document it, even if only in a readme: In contradiction to what its name may apply, Sdfdataset reads and writes CSV data according to RFC4180, not the Delphi SDF format. PS: I'll leave writing a test set to test against RFC4180 for people who care. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal